How I adore these light and airy and quick to make little delights with a cup of coffee or tea ♥♥♥
Ingredients:
- 2 eggs
- 2 tbsp caster sugar
- 2 tbsp icing sugar
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- ¼ cup self raising flour
- ¼ cup plain flour
- 75g unsalted butter – melted
- 1 lemon, zested
- 1 tbsp hot water
- 2 tbsp icing sugar extra for dusting
Method:
- Preheat oven to 200°C and grease two 12 hole madeleine pans with a little butter.
- Beat eggs, caster sugar, icing sugar and vanilla in a small bowl with an electric mixer until thick and creamy
- Meanwhile, sift flours twice. Sift flours again over egg mixture
- Pour combined butter and the water down side of bowl then fold ingredients together, add lemon zest.
- Drop rounded tablespoons of mixture into pan holes.
- Bake madeleines about 10 minutes.
- Tap hot pan firmly on bench to release madeleines then turn immediately onto baking paper covered wire racks to cool
- Serve dusted with extra sifted icing sugar.
- Makes 24
Please leave a comment if you have enjoyed my recipe so I know I’m making people happy ❤️
I love your blog!!! I’m so glad I found it! I haven’t cooked anything yet but I will. I might try these as my recipe has so much more butter!!! 🙂
Grazie amico mio…….a lifetime of passion, Try it as it is very easy…. they are light as a feather <3